Catherine Stock

There seems to be no place for the smallest child in a family's busy preparations for Thanksgiving, until Grandpa steps in and they perform a vital task everyone else has forgotten.

A child and his parents enjoy the last-minute activities to prepare for Christmas.

A brother and sister spend Easter with their mother in a little cabin on the lake.

A child living near the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe encounters several wild animals on her way to school.

While visiting his aunt and uncle in the little South African village of Kalk Bay, Armien stows away in his uncle's fishing boat and becomes an unexpected hero.

Emma's grandfather, newly arrived from China, introduces her to the power of dragons.

On Christmas morning a stray cat slips into the house through an open window, and the children decide to keep him, hidden in an old basket under the stairs.

Summer transforms a quiet island as visitors arrive for swimming, playing on the beach, card games, soccer, hide-and-seek, and dancing in the evening.

Gus doesn't want to give up the training wheels on his bike, even for a new five-speed bicycle, until Grandpa helps him learn how to get along without them.

Gus despairs of coming up with something interesting and impressive for his second-grade class's show-and-tell, until he gets a great idea while visiting Grandpa.